Matthew Fuller is a British media theorist and critical practitioner in digital culture. He has served as a professor of cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has also taught in a digital culture research unit. His intellectual background includes critical engagement with cyberculture and software culture, and he has been deeply involved with net art and hacker culture from the 1990s through the 2000s.
Fuller is known for independently developing the concept of media ecology. His approach examines the dynamic interactions of media environments across software, networks, machines, code, infrastructure, and tactical media. Rather than treating media as a purely technical or representational field, his work emphasizes a material and political mode of analysis. His 2005 book, Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture, is a key statement of this perspective and has influenced research in digital art and alternative media.
He has also worked across the intersections of art, science, politics, and aesthetics, with interests spanning contemporary art, media art, and performance. In the exhibition War on the Senses / War of the Senses, Fuller served as a co-curator and contributed through his theoretical background. He was also a member of the advisory board of Forensic Architecture, and his work has addressed the intersections of architecture, technology, and justice. Through these activities, Fuller has helped shape critical discussions of media environments, perception, and power.